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Blue Origin fires up powerful New Glenn rocket ahe...
Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket has successfully completed a static fire test ahead of launc...
A Flash, a Boom, a New Microbe Habitat
After an asteroid struck Finland long ago, microscopic life colonized the impact site within a few m...
Does the full moon make us sleepless? A neurologis...
Research shows a full moon can modestly affect sleep, but its influence on mental health is much les...
Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is still full ...
"The reason for 3I’s rapid brightening, which far exceeds the brightening rate of most Oort cloud co...
Satellite images show 'mesovortices' forming aroun...
Footage from a NOAA satellite taken Oct. 28 shows Melissa’s deadly spin as it moves across the Carib...
Astronomers capture vast cosmic bat spreading its ...
The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic ...
Best sci-fi horror books: Top sci-fi horror reads ...
From Orwell's dystopian paranoia to Jeff VanderMeer's ecological nightmares, these science-fiction h...
Quantum computers reveal that the wave function is...
The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observa...
Trick or treat: Here's where to find comets Lemmon...
Read on to discover where comets Lemmon, SWAN and 3I/ATLAS are in the Halloween night sky on Oct. 21...
'Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a t...
Scientists are searching for answers in the cosmic mystery of ghost particles known as neutrinos.
China launches Shenzhou 21 astronauts to Tiangong ...
Shenzhou 21, China's latest astronaut mission, is on its way to the Tiangong space station after a F...
Become the scary alien this Halloween with these 5...
Many video games are full of alien horrors, but these are the best games that let players turn the t...
Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious grou...
We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there...
Bulletproof fabric laced with carbon nanotubes is ...
A sheet of fabric that is three times stronger than Kevlar could stop a bullet despite being just 1....
Explore the Milky Way like never before in this st...
Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created,...
Halloween colors come to Kitt Peak Observatory | S...
For Halloween, our space photo of the day shows a brilliant orange sunset over Kitt Peak Observatory...
Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon c...
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming imp...
The gut microbiome may play a role in shaping our ...
Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting...
The best new science fiction books of November 202...
From Claire North’s new novel Slow Gods to a 10th anniversary edition of a brilliant Adrian Tchaikov...
Halloween stargazing 2025: The moon and Saturn lig...
A waxing gibbous moon and the ringed planet Saturn will enlighten our sky for treat-or-treaters this...
Watch China launch 3 astronauts toward its Tiangon...
China will launch three astronauts toward its Tiangong space station today (Oct. 31), and you can wa...
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during...
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
Our verdict on Our Brains, Our Selves: A mix of pr...
The New Scientist Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain's prize-winning popular science boo...
Book Club: Read an extract from Every Version of Y...
In this passage from the opening of Grace Chan’s sci-fi novel, the November read for the New Scienti...
If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia,...
Grace Chan, author of Every Version of You, the November read for the New Scientist Book Club, explo...
Boy's body was mummified and turned green by a cop...
The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new ins...
New laser drill could help scientists explore ice-...
Scientists have developed a laser-based ice drill concept that could enable deeper, low-power explor...
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Our best camera for autofocus is on sale at Walmart for only $3190 in this pre-Black Friday deal.
'Anti-social' cosmic explosion could change the wa...
"Our scenario describes all the evolutionary phases of the supernova with great precision."
SpaceX looking into 'simplified' Starship Artemis ...
On Oct. 30, SpaceX posted an update about its Starship moon-landing plans, which includes a referenc...
Sorry, but interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS really is...
Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are exciting, but there is no reason to claim that they are evide...
Magnetic gel could remove kidney stones more effec...
Standard techniques for removing kidney stones often require repeated surgery, but a magnetic gel se...
These top-rated binoculars deliver 'a sky-watching...
The Celestron SkyMaster binoculars are our best binoculars for magnification, with a massive discoun...
Colorado sues Trump administration over plans to r...
Colorado's attorney general is suing the Trump administration over the White House's plans to move t...
The US is unlikely to test nuclear weapons, despit...
President Donald Trump appears to have ordered a return to nuclear testing after decades of uneasy b...
Dinosaur skeleton settles long debate over 'tiny T...
Palaeontologists have argued for decades over whether certain fossils are young Tyrannosaurus rex or...
Europe is working to develop reusable rockets by t...
ArianeGroup's methane-fueled Prometheus engine and Themis demonstrator mark key steps toward a Europ...
China reveals crew for Shenzhou 21 mission to Tian...
China unveiled the crew set to launch on the Shenzhou 21 mission to the Tiangong Space Station on Oc...
Powerful solar storms may help life get going on a...
New observations of a volatile young star have shown how infant suns could unleash enough energy to ...
James Webb Space Telescope spots the haunting Red ...
A new James Webb Space Telescope image showcases the gorgeous Red Spider Nebula against a backdrop o...
Peering into the eye of Hurricane Melissa | Space ...
Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite captured high-resolution views inside the eye of the powerf...
Germanium superconductor could help build reliable...
A new type of germanium superconductor could allow classical and quantum chips to be built into one ...
Watch SpaceX launch its 100th Starlink mission of ...
SpaceX will launch its 100th Starlink mission of the year today (Oct. 30), and you can watch the act...
Stem cell therapy lowers risk of heart failure aft...
People who receive stem cell therapy within a week of their first heart attack have nearly a 60 per ...
Venus loses its last active spacecraft, as Japan d...
Japan declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a year after the Venus c...
A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enorm...
One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its c...
Could these mysterious flashes of light in 1950s p...
Researchers claim flashes of light seen in sky surveys could have been UFOs drawn to Earth by nuclea...
Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists mapped the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-18b in three dime...
Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderth...
Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that ...
Every 'Star Wars: Visions Volume 3' episode, ranke...
The award-winning anthology of animated Star Wars shorts is back with a third batch crafted by Japan...
